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Apr 03
The last week of term!
Although the term is drawing to a close, we had a very busy week filled with fun learning opportunities. As part of our Understanding the World learning, we have learned about the wonderful celebrations happening in the Spring time. We started off learning about Mother’s Day, thinking of all the wonderful things mums and the …
Mar 27
This week in Reception
We have had another very busy week in Reception! In maths, we have been reviewing our learning on doubles and ensuring that the children know that two equal parts make a double. The children were excellent at showing doubles on their fingers. We have also started to introduce new learning about odd and even numbers. …
Mar 20
🌿🌷Spring has sprung!🪻🌱
We have had another fun and eventful week in Reception full of learning opportunities! The weather has definitely started to turn in our favour and it has been magnificent to spend more time outside. We started off our week by celebrating national recycling day where we learned about many different ways to look after …
Mar 13
A busy week!
This week in Reception, we have been very busy in our Literacy lessons learning about endangered and extinct animals. Our recent story we have looked at (The Journey Home) showed animals and their homes in danger. The children were fascinated to look deeper into other endangered animals and why they are in danger. We looked …
Mar 06
A great week in Reception!
This week has been choc and block full of learning opportunities as always but we also had 2 extra special days to celebrate! On Tuesday the children were all very excited about pancake day and all morning long they dreamt of all the toppings they would have on their pancakes at dinner time. As a …
Feb 28
Literacy and St David’s day
We hope you had a lovely half term break! This week in Reception we started learning our new literacy story, The Journey Home. The children came in on Monday morning to find a tuff tray filled with ice, polar bears and a panda on a building. This sparked lots of questions as to what it …
Feb 13
Love is in the air!
This week the children have been very creative. Not only have they made numerous cards and written letters to their parents to show their love and appreciation, they have also worked collaboratively to create a piece of art inspired by our artist for the term, Yayoi Kusama! After reading our Dragon Post book, the …
Feb 06
Nocturnal Animals
On Monday morning, the Reception children were very excited to come into school as they knew some special animals were coming to visit. We asked the children which animals they thought they would see and then explained to them that the visiting animals were all nocturnal. We were impressed that some children could tell us …
Jan 30
Our baby dragon 🐉
This week the children received a huge surprise! After the terrible weather we had, we found a baby dragon in our garden who got separated from his mother. The children were in awe of the little moving dragon who needs looking after. Luckily we have been reading our new class book, Dragon Post! The children …
Jan 23
History week
This week in Reception we have delved deeper into the history of castles. The children were fascinated to find out the differences between palaces and castles. During our carpet sessions we have looked at the different features of castles and palaces. The children then used their new knowledge within child initiated learning time to complete …